At 12:55 AM 19/04/2006, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have an application which is running in over 800 restaurants and
>uses Firebird v1.52. During backups, I use a TIBOBackupService to
>create an fbk and this fbk is stored in a zip file.
>
>When restoring, the first step is to delete any fbk files that exist
>before trying to restore the zip. Sometimes, this deletion fails
>because the fbk is open. If I didn't delete the file, the restore of
>the zip would fail for the same reason. The only solution we've found
>when this happens is to restart the Firebird Guardian. However, in
>the restaurants, the users don't have adequate rights to restart a
>service.
>
>This doesn't always happen but it's generating a large number of
>support calls. Hense, my customer is blaming Firebird and me for
>using Firebird.
>
>Has anyone else seen this problem? If so, how did you deal with it?

Are there specific deployment conditions at the problem sites, where
you are trying to run the backup from the same application space as
the main app and/or the main app is using a Windows local connection?

./heLen